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Hypnosis to Create the Life you Truly Desire

by Xavier_Nathan

Published on: December 17, 2011

Categories: Hypnotherapy, Thoughts & Feelings

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The Split Mind

The mind is split and that is why we sometimes find ourselves talking to ourselves. The internal dialogue we each experience is as a result of the divided mind. One part of the mind sides with the ego and is continuously filling the silence with noise. The noise I refer to is the internal dialogue that keeps us distracted and focussed on what we imagine to be real.

The Internal Critic

The more immersed we become in this internal dialogue the more real our problems and stresses become. The dialogue is a creation of the ego and its sole purpose is to keep us focussed on the unreal which then becomes real to us. The more we can disengage from this idle chatter the more peaceful we become and the closer we feel to our true nature. Hypnosis is a wonderful tool which gives us the ability to, in effect, turn off the noise that keeps us distracted and daily practice brings peace and enjoy into our lives.

The ego needs us to believe in time for its own survival. Without the construct of time the ego cannot exist because we would immediately see through the illusion. The way the ego keeps us believing in time is by making us jump back and forth between past and future never actually allowing us to ever be in the present moment. The ego plays a very clever trick on us and we all fall for it every time. The trick involves getting us to make the association between what has happened in the past and making us equate that with the future. So, in effect, we are conditioned to expect from the future what we have experienced in the past.

Breaking the Cycle

The way to break this cycle is in understanding that it is our focus of attention that attracts our experiences to us. If we continue to place our focus on what has happened in the past then that is exactly what we will attract to us in the future. Using hypnosis to ground ourselves in the present we can sever our false connection to the past and future and choose a different focus for our attention. By learning to place our attention on what we want to experience we eventually attract those very experiences and people to create the future we desire.

A Shift in Awareness

Some people imagine hypnosis as something that a hypnotist does to them and associate it with entertainment . No, hypnosis is simply using any one or more of your five senses to bring us into the present through focussed attention. I regularly do it as I am walking to work and I focus my attention on the beauty of everything I see. By looking for the beauty of everything that is presented to my eyes this creates a shift in awareness that takes me out of my head and the monkey mind ceases its idle chatter. The feeling of well being that accompanies this shift in awareness is unmistakeable.

The Art of Self Hypnosis

All that is required is our willingness to get out of our heads at various times during the day and eventually we will spend more and more time in the present creating the life we desire. It is all right there and all we have to do is simply develop the discipline of mind to bring our attention regularly to it until it manifests.

Mary and I have each created an audio you can download from our Facebook Shop or from the downloads page on our website. The audio is called Introduction to Hypnosis and designed specifically to teach the art of self hypnosis and regularly playing the audio teaches you how to focus the mind so that you can deliberately choose to dwell on the thoughts to attract the life you truly desire.

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Hypnosis to Correct Perception

by Xavier_Nathan

Published on: October 12, 2011

Categories: Hypno-Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy

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Perceptions are Deceiving

The biggest problem facing us today is our incorrect perception of ourselves, of others and the world at large.

There is nothing innately wrong with perception because there is actually nothing else we can do given that in order to interact with each other and the world we can only perceive what we observe. The reason for this is that we are dependent on interpreting the information that we receive from our five senses.

Making it up in our Heads

The information we receive from the external world, like light reflected from an object, is converted into electrical impulses which are sent to the brain where they are decoded and an image is created of the object. This all happens in an instant so we imagine that the image we see is the object we are observing outside of us. In fact the image we see and which we attach meaning to is in our own heads.

We automatically assign meaning to things we see in our heads and we pass judgement on people, places, experiences and things normally based on our past experiences with what we observe. Judging and criticising is what we spend most of our waking day doing and it is how we preserve our belief system, self concept and what we believe reality to be.

The Price of Wrong Perception

Most people do not question this state of affairs and are content to accept this but there is a price to pay for such an attitude. Perceiving is not the same as knowing the truth and as long as we hold fast to the notion that our perceptions are reality then we are bound to encounter problems.

Most of the problems we encounter, by believing our illusions to be true, are pain, suffering and disease. It is our reluctance to look past or through the veil of illusion that covers our emotional and spiritual eyes and let go of our wrong perceptions that we invite the pain that we experience.

Stage Hypnosis fuels wrong perception of Hypnosis

In our work as a Clinical Hypno-Psychotherapists my wife Mary and I deal with people who come to us initially to ask us to take away their pain. Most of them are completely oblivious to the idea that it is in fact their erroneous belief system that is causing the problem and it only when they choose to change their minds that any progress can be made.

Most come under the illusion that we are some kind of magicians that will whisk away their problems while they are “under”!

This is not their fault however because most of them have formed their preconceived ideas about Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy based on stage shows by entertainers who wish to give the impression that they are controlling the people on stage. This in fact could not be further from the truth. Nobody controls you when you are in hypnosis. In fact you are more in control of your self in hypnosis than at any other time in your life primarily because in hypnosis you are free to consider ideas that you would normally never entertain.

Hypnosis to Facilitate Change

During your normal waking day you judge whatever you hear and see based on what you believe to be reality. So if your reality is that you are suffering from a serious illness then you are not going to accept any ideas that suggest anything that goes against this belief in your illness. As long as your belief system protects your illness there will be no change. Doesn’t it make sense therefore that in order to address the illness you have to suspend your judgement in order to entertain an alternative belief about your health?

Hypnosis enables you to suspend your judgement to the degree that you can entertain alternative perceptions some of which may ideally even contradict the notion of your illness. By learning how to hypnotise yourself you are taking responsibility for how you decide to perceive reality and you are free to choose how you wish to perceive your problem.

“ Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself.” was a message shared by a friend on FaceBook and though I like the message it is easier said than done. Unless people are equipped with the tools and resources to change, they find it difficult to do so. I am going further with this article and proposing how each person can equip themselves with the necessary tools to affect the change they desire. Learning the art of Self-Hypnosis is a way to equip ourselves with the necessary resource to at least entertain the idea of change.

Learning Self-Hypnosis

Mary and I both run our own Private Hypno-Psychotherapy Clinic here in Peel, Isle of Man and before we begin any therapy with anyone who seeks our help we first require them to purchase and download from our website an audio we have have developed that teaches them how to hypnotise themselves. The audio costs £29.99 one is with my voice and the other with Mary’s depending on whether the person prefers to be treated by a male or female therapist. We ask them to put the audio on their iPod or MP3 player and play it at least once a day for a week to ten days before starting therapy. When they come to us to start treatment they are already in charge of their own recovery and we are facilitators in the psychotherapeutic process that effectively leads them to correct their self concept.

To find out more about the audio I refer to in this article please visit our Manx Hypnosis Fan Page on FaceBook and please be sure to press the “like” button.

For information about our other products which are not on the FaceBook fan page please visit our website downloads page

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Meditation

by Xavier_Nathan

Published on: August 12, 2011

Categories: spiritual exercise

Tags:benefits of meditation, ego, High C, higher consciousness, how to meditate, illusion, maya, meditate, meditating, meditation, Monkey Mind, no thought, Phyllis Krystal, reality, the breath, thought, true self

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What is Meditation

Meditation is an ancient method devised thousands of years ago by people who realised that the self we think we are is a false self and responsible for the illusion we have become trapped in. These people realised that in order to pierce the veil of illusion which they called maya it would be necessary for us to still the false self and make it quiet for long enough so that we can experience the true self.

The Ego

The false self is nowadays called the ego. Everything we see in this world we see through the ego and it is the ego that gives meaning to everything we see and experience in this world. The real meaning lies hidden beneath the meaning the ego has written over everything and that is the illusion or maya they referred to.

In order to experience the real self they came up with the idea to focus the ego so that it is eventually concentrated on only one thought or activity. Once this is achieved it would then be relatively easy to drop that one thought or activity and be in the world free from the ego and its interpretations. The state would be a state of no thought.

Dropping The Ego

In order to achieve this state they practised, in many cases, for years. The ego, however, does not relinquish its power over us so easily and it places distractions before us as we get closer to the state of no thought. Many people abandon the practice as a result of the temptations presented to them. The distractions or temptations I refer to range from an increase in mental activity and a focus on worries or questions to a discovery of special psychic powers. Faithfully adhering to the practice of meditation in which the ego is completely dropped, results in discovering the true self or Higher Self.

The High C

The term Higher Self or High C was coined by Phyllis Krystal who wrote a number of books about the subject two of which are:

Because we are conditioned from birth to believe in the illusion created by the ego few question what everyone believes to be reality. In Cutting of the Ties that Bind Phyllis Krystal describes how to connect to the High C and undo the conditioning that holds us captive that keeps us spell bound by our beliefs.

How to Meditate

You can meditate anywhere, any time sitting on the floor or in a chair. As long as you are comfortable all that is required to meditate is that you fix your mind on something for a period of time and with practice spend longer and longer periods with the mind concentrated in this way. Should stray thoughts enter your awareness simply acknowledge them and let them pass the way you would acknowledge a bird that comes into view and flies away. Thoughts are like trains that pull into the station of your mind. You can remain in the station or board the train of thought. The choice is and always has been yours.

The thing you choose to focus your mind on can be anything that registers through any one or combination of the five senses. You could focus on the face of a picture symbolising God or the face of your mother or father. You could focus on a sound perhaps the sound of a clock in the room. There is no reason why you could not focus on a body sensation like the rise and fall of your tummy or chest as you breathe or even a taste. You could of course combine a picture with a sound or a body sensation with a sound as I do. I focus my mind on the sensation of the air entering and leaving through the tip of my nose and as I breathe in I hear myself saying the word in and as I breathe out I hear myself saying the word out. You could try various combinations until you find the one that just feels right for you. The point here is to observe rather than control. So if you are observing the breath then you do not interfere with it in any way. That was what I found hard in the beginning because my mind tended to change the rhythm of my breathing when I focussed on it. With perseverance your ego relinquishes control and you just are!

Falling asleep or finding yourself on a thought train are both distractions and with practice you will learn to avoid these. Remember the aim of meditation is the dropping of ego so that judgement and analytical activity is suspended. The first stage of mediation is really self hypnosis and the frequency of the brain waves in this state of mind is predominantly alpha which is about 10 Hz. As you progressively quiet the mental activity the frequency of the brain waves decreases and you achieve deeper levels of meditation.

I would simply warn against having any expectation of the experience as expectation is a function of the ego and as such will set you up for self sabotage. I would warn against distraction especially the ones that make you feel that you have special psychic abilities. Simply relax, focus the mind on one thought until that thought is dropped. That is the essence and end of meditation.

Secondary Benefits of Meditating

By meditating regularly you will find yourself feeling more centred, happier, healthier and with your mind uncluttered you will feel more purposeful and confident. You will undoubtedly experience many benefits, physically, emotionally and spiritually but these are more a consequence of the practice rather than the goal but sometimes that is enough for many people and that is fine too.

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Following is a video that explains how to to meditate in order to achieve the state of no thought.

Maya Illusion

by Xavier_Nathan

Published on: June 11, 2011

Categories: Human Spirit

Tags:brain, brain decodes, brain interprets, conditioning, dream, electrical impulses, external, illusion, illusory world, interpretation, Jesus, matter, mind, perceive, perception, reality, sleep, subconscious, universe

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Conditioned Views

From the very beginning of our lives we are conditioned to believe that the material world we live in exists and is separate from us. Most people simply accept the illusion as real and never question the world they imagine as separate from themselves. Living a life based on illusion is bound to create problems and those problems are clearly evident in the lives of those who hold fast to their illusory world.

The Brain Interprets What We Receive Through The Senses

In order to explain what I mean it will first be necessary for me to talk about how we perceive the world in the first place. Everything that we know about the world outside of us we receive through our five senses. Light reflected from an object enters the eye and is focussed on the back of the eye called the retina. Nerves called rods and cones in the retina convert the light into electrical signals that are relayed to the vision centre, a tiny area in the back of the brain. The act of seeing occurs in that tiny space at the back of the brain. This means that everything you say you see outside of yourself is in fact being seen inside of you in a place where no light can enter.

The External World is Experienced Internally

The Seeing Brain

In the same way your brain creates sound, touch, smell and taste from the electrical impulses it receives and we actually experience the pain we imagine we feel in our stubbed toe in our brain. The sound we imagine we hear outside is actually being heard in our own brain. In fact every experience we imagine we experience externally is in fact being experienced internally in our brain. We are in effect making judgements about ourselves, others and the world based on how the brain decodes the electrical signals it receives. This also means that though we never actually directly interact with the images we create in our brains some people still emphatically state that matter exists!

The Brain Decodes Electrical Impulses to Create External Reality

Look out of your window and pick something to look at. That thing you are looking at is a set of electrical impulses in your brain. The reality you imagine when standing on a beach and looking out at the horizon or staring up at the stars is an interpretation made by your brain of decoded electrical signals.

Maya Means Illusion

Since we are not set up to have direct experience with anything outside of ourselves how can so may people buy into and defend such an illusion as to believe that the world they perceive actually exists? Only a very few people have woken up from this dream reality and accept it for what it is, an illusion. The wise ones from ancient times called it maya or the world of perceptions lived completely within our own mind. We deceive ourselves when we believe that the universe exists outside of the mind.

Wake Up Call from Awakened Ones

The Observer

Imagine the body as being a computer hooked up to the brain. The computer is then feeding the

brain the electrical impulses to create the experiences and images it wishes the brain to perceive. If you can imagine this then it is not such a big leap in thought to realise how easy it is for us to be conditioned to believe what we see, hear, touch, smell and taste is real and separate from us. But there are many ways to free ourselves from the illusion and people like Jesus have come into this world time and again to show us how. In every case their message has been used to reinforce the illusion and the message for us to wake up is lost in ideology designed to keep us sleeping.

What is Dream and What is Real?

Even in sleep we do not dream continuously. If we spend even 30 minutes in the whole night dreaming we are doing well. We go through cycles of deep sleep and dreaming and so at night we mimic what happens in what we call our real lives. When we sleep we wake up by dreaming and we can do this many times during the night. In that reality our dreaming is waking up. When we awaken in the morning we imagine that we have awakened from sleep and the dream world is not real. The people we meet in our dream like the people we meet in our so called waking life all experience the same so called reality. In the same way that an opinion does not become true because more people share it, the external world does not become real because more people share the illusion.

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Who or What is the “I” Aware of Self as the Perceiver?

Up to now I have been citing the brain as the one which creates the perceptions we experience but the brain itself can be perceived and so it too must be an illusion. In fact anything that you can perceive must be an illusion a creation of the mind which must be separate from the mind and the body. So if the mind holds within it all that can be perceived then who or what is this being that thinks, feels and is self aware ? This is a question for another article but in the meantime it is food for thought and hopefully what I have said here will make you think and perhaps some of you may find the call to wake up appealing. For others what I have to say hear may provoke fear in which case you will find yourself reacting violently to the ideas presented here. In either case the reaction will tell you more about yourself and that is a good thing.

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Resurrection From The Mind

by Xavier_Nathan

Published on: May 28, 2011

Categories: Human Spirit

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Resurrection by edwt4u

The Ego’s Game

In order to keep us from experiencing the truth the ego has a limitless collection of bad memories to keep us busy. We find these memories popping up unexpectedly and always just when you think that things are going well.

How many times in the day do you find yourself regretting things you have done or failed to do? How many times do you find yourself resenting things people have done to you or failed to do for you? Feelings of regret and resentment are always followed by bitter memories that create dis-ease.

The ego does not want you to know the truth because knowing the truth would mean it will no longer exist. The ego will use everything at its disposal to maintain the illusion you imagine to be real because that is the only way it can ensure its survival.

The ego is borne out of lifetimes of reacting in certain ways to people and situations. It is borne out of thought patterns that have become the norm and give rise to feelings that attract the people and circumstances to create what you believe to be true. The way out of the web of illusion created by the ego is to change these habitual reactions and thought patterns. No, it is not easy but it can be done and people like Jesus have shown that it can. Discipline and perseverance are what is required. Discipline involves doing something that does not come naturally and so discipline enables us to counteract our own subconscious programming in order to change. Of course there will be resistance but simply see the resistance as an indication that you are on the right track.

Passive Resistance through Forgiveness is the Key to Enlightenment

The key to realising the truth is through passively resisting to believe in the illusion any more. Simply refuse to believe in the illusion being presented and accept that we imagine it to be real. By choosing to see everyone and everything in the world as projections of mind that we deny and spontaneously forgiving them as they arise the truth will eventually be revealed and the veil of maya lifted from our eyes.

Just like our dreams at night, this world is a dream. Just as everyone and everything in our nocturnal dreams represent aspects of our mind, everything and everyone in our waking world is also a symbol that is not real.

Realising the world is an illusion does not mean we shouldn’t participate and do our duty. We have a responsibility to live the life we are given but without being attached to it as we were when we imagined it to be real. By changing our attitude to the world we change our lives and we become happy and content as a result.

How can you not become happy when you realise that life is a movie. You are the hero and also the villain. You are the movie set, the props, all the other actors and actresses, and the director. You are the camera and you are also the screen. There is only you and there has never been anyone else and you just imagined it all. This is how we each live our lives and that is the reason why we each keep coming back to learn this lesson.

There is Nothing in this World other than”I”

Stop wasting your life fighting the imagined battle of good against evil. The good and evil you see are symbols of the conflict within your own split mind projected on the screen of the world. Every time you judge another person or the world you are subscribing to the illusion and you immerse yourself in a movie that is not real. You choose a lifetime in a prison of your own making even though you hold the key to your own freedom. The ego likes nothing better than you believing in the illusion because by doing so you are ensuring its survival.

Like dreams you have had at night and cannot remember when you awaken , this life will not be remembered when you come back and awaken in your next body. However, each time you return you bring back with you your habitual reactions and attitude. You mind does not change as you go from one life to another unless you have changed your mind while you were alive. Changing your mind requires expending the necessary energy and discipline and this can only be done while you are alive and engaging in the illusion you imagine to be real. Those people who try to escape through suicide find themselves right back where they started. Some people imagine that we go to Hell or Heaven when we die and that’s the end of it. That too is a false assumption. There is no escape from our responsibility and death is certainly not a way out. We keep coming back because it is our responsibility and our duty to see through the illusion and return to God.

The Resurrection is Enlightenment and waking up from this Dream

Everything and everyone around us is constantly providing us with the opportunities to wake up. The resurrection referred to in the Bible has nothing to do with the body. The Resurrection Christ was referring to is of the mind. We attach too much importance to the body which is but a symbol and nothing more. The body exists in the mind and that is why changes we make in the mind affect the body. The mind commands and the body obeys. This in itself is not as important as the real goal which is enlightenment and being one with God.

Enlightenment is the Resurrection and it is not of the body but of the mind when it awakens from this dream. The truth is right here but lies hidden behind the elaborate illusion we call the world. This is how the ego keeps us distracted and attached to the illusion.

The key to enlightenment or resurrection is to stop giving energy to the shadows we perceive as real. Forgive everything and everyone and make forgiveness a natural reaction. When we do this we awaken from our dream and we join God who patiently waits for us.

Link to a related article I have written in HubPages: Self Realization Through Forgiveness

I highly recommend the book “The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary R. Renard” that deals exclusively with the subject matter of this post.

Following is a 6 minutes video clip of an interview with the author Gary R Renard about the book The disappearance of the Universe which is well worth watching.

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Hypnosis to Create the Life you Truly Desire

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Hypnosis to Correct Perception

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Conditioned Views

The Brain Interprets What We Receive Through The Senses

The External World is Experienced Internally

The Brain Decodes Electrical Impulses to Create External Reality

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Wake Up Call from Awakened Ones The Observer

What is Dream and What is Real?

Cage by parablev Who or What is the “I” Aware of Self as the Perceiver?

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Resurrection From The Mind

The Ego’s Game

Passive Resistance through Forgiveness is the Key to Enlightenment

There is Nothing in this World other than”I”

The Resurrection is Enlightenment and waking up from this Dream

Following is a 6 minutes video clip of an interview with the author Gary R Renard about the book The disappearance of the Universe which is well worth watching.

Wake Up Call from Awakened Ones

The Observer

Cage by parablev

Who or What is the “I” Aware of Self as the Perceiver?